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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEe GREEN CLAY GOODLOE, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,990, datedvMareh 11, 1884.

Application filed December 17, 1883. (No model.) l

To allez/hom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, GREEN CLAY GooDLoE, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Vashington, in the District of Columbia, have invented a new and useful Horseshoe, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in horseshoes in which I employ a top or stationary plate of peculiar construction in conjunction with a bottom or removable plate; and it also consists in the novel arrangement and combination of parts, as will be herein-- after more fully described, and specificallyset forth in the claims. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of my improved horseshoe, and Figs. 2 and 3 are views in detail.

' Similar letters referto similar parts-throughout the several views.. l

Arepresents the part of the horseshoe which is to be permanently attached to the horses foot. It is made of the usual form for a horseshoe, with grooves a u on the under side, in which the heads of the nails are placed. At the toe of the shoe A the parts on each side thereof are cut away to 'form the projection B, and the heels are also cut away to leave a projection, b, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

C represents the movable part of the horseshoe, formed similar to the upper stationary part, but is formed with a toe-piece, D, having the upwardly-extending portions d d fitting and extending upward on each side of the projection B, and between which the projection B on the stationary part is adapted to be placed. The heel of the movable part C is provided with the pieces c c, preferably made integral with the plate or piece C, and project 4o down at right angles with the plane of the piece C, and having the upwardly-extending projections c' c adapted to fit against the heel of the stationary part in the space formed by the projections b. The removable part is sei5 cured to the stationary part of the shoe b v screws, which enter screw-holes e, and pass into but not through the upper piece, A, or other suitablemeans; and it will thus be seen that when the removable part becomes worn or useless it can with but little trouble be removed and a new one substituted. It will .also be seen that when the removable part is Ysecured in position it will be effectually prevented from having any lateral or longitudinal movement by means of the projections before described, and the screws will keep it in place.

The movable part may be constructed with 

